There's an old Chinese proverb, A man takes a drink, the drink takes a drink, the drink takes a man. To the moderate drinker of course this is a fallacy, to a none drinker it's a warning, to the heavy drinker a tangible threat  and to the alcoholic an epitaph. To illustrate this latter fact Henry Simon of the Missing Persons Bureau has chosen to relate the case of Russel Burdon and to it he applies the proverb, a man takes a drink...